Workshops and Seminars
The C.G. Jung Foundation presents
Hermes, Guide of Soul
a daylong seminar led by
Gary D. Astrachan, Ph.D.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Hermes, messenger, thief, servant, journeyer and bringer of dreams, is also known as the friendliest of all the gods to men. He leads us along the paths of life, and just as easily laughs as we go astray. He is a trickster. Intuition, synchronicity and the arts of interpretation are all embraced the folds of his traveler s cloak. As the patron god of alchemy, he presides over the infinite exchanges and transformations of matter and psyche. This scintillating god, in traversing all borders, boundaries and edges, both images and reveals the unus mundus, the objective psyche itself.
We will explore, celebrate and delight in the Hermetic mythologem with lecture material, slides, music, readings and lively discussion.
Recommended readings:
- Boer, C. (Trans. and Ed.) To Hermes I and II, in Homeric Hymns, Dallas TX: Spring, 1970, 18-59.
- Kerenyi, K., Hermes: Guide of Souls. Zurich: Spring, 1976.
Gary D. Astrachan, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Portland, Maine. He is a faculty member and supervising and training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Boston and lectures and teaches widely throughout North America and Europe. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles in professional journals and books and writes particularly on the relationship between analytical psychology and Greek mythology, poetry, painting, film, postmodernism, and critical theory.